Anchoring device for boats.



J. EDMAN & E. ECK.

ANGHORING DEVICE FOR BOATS.

APPLICATION FILED NOV. 15, 1913.

1,109,052, Patented Sept. 1,1914.

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JOHN EDMAN Alan nanrincxfor MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA.

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Our invention has for its object to provide an extremely simple and highly eflicient device for anchoring row boats and other small vessels, especially adapted for the use of fishermen and hunters, and provides means whereby the boats may be quickly and securely anchored and the anchor pulled up when it is desired to move the boat.

To the above ends, the invention consists of the novel devices and combinations of devices hereinafter described and defined in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, which illustrate the invention, like characters indicate like parts throughout the several views.

Referring to the drawings: Figure l is a view in side elevation, showing a row'boat with our improved anchoring; device applied thereto, some parts being broken away; Fig. 2 is a rear elevation of the anchoring device removed from the boat, some parts being broken away and some of the exposed parts bein shown 'insection; Fig. 3 shows the anchorlng device partly in verticalsection and partly in full lines; Fig. 4 shows the anchoring device in side elevation; and Fig. 5 is a plan view of the same.

The boat which, as stated, is of the row boat type, is indicated as an entirety by the numeral 1. Detachably secured to the stern 'of the boat is a vertically extended tubular bodv casting 2 located outside of said boat and having a laterally and downwardly projecting bracket 3 arranged to embrace the upper portion 'ofj'the boat transom. A clamping-screw 4 has screw threaded engagement with the downwardly projecting end portion of the bracket 3, and its inner end impinges against a wearing plate 1 secured to the inner face of the transom of the boat 1. Spacing lugs 2 are cast integral with the body casting 2 and are arranged to engage the outer face of the tran- Specification r Letters Patent. Application filed we ber 15, 1913..

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som f the boat1, thereby holding the body castlng 2 in a vertical position. On'the opposite side of the body casting 2 from the spacing lugs 2 saidcasting is cut away at 2, 1n order to lighten the same.

e upper end of the body casting 2 is normally closed by a cover 5 secured to the said casing by a long hinge pin 6. As best shown in Fig. 5, the front edge of the cover 5 is provided with a which said cover may within the upper end is a Windlass drum 7 having, at each end, a ratchet Wheel 8 affording the side flanges of said Windlass drum. The trunnions 9 of the Windlass drum 7 are loosely journaled in open seats 10 formed in the upper horizontal edge portions of thesides of the body casting 2. To the trunnions 9 are secured, respectively, a hand crank 11 and a brake wheel 12. side of the cover 5 is a pair of depending retaining dogs 13 coiiperating with the ratchet wheels 8 to hold the Windlass drum 7 in dif ferent set adjustments. v These retaining dogs 13 are yieldingly held engaged with the ratchet wheels 8 by a U-shaped spring 14 having a long and a short leg. The long leg is anchored to a projection 15 on one side of the body casting 2, for a limited rotary movement therein. The free end of the projecting lip 5 by be raised. Journaled short leg engages and rests upon the upper sideof the cover 5. Obviously, this spring 14 will yield under the rotation of the ratchet wheels 8, when: rotated in the direction of the arrow marked thereon in Fig. 3, to permit the retaining dogs 13 to move into and out of engagement with the teeth of said ratchet wheels. When it is desired to open the cover 5, the spring 14 may be turned out of engagement with the said cover by rotating the long leg thereof in the projection 15.

A brake lever 16 in the form of a bell crank is pivotally mounted on the hinge pin 6. The short arm of this brake lever overlies and is arranged .to be moved into and out of frictional engagement with thebrake vvheel 12 and the long arm thereof is pro vided with a hand piece 17. This brake lever 16 also secures the Windlass drum 7 against removal from the open seats 10. To remove the Windlass drum 7 from said seats 10, it is necessary to first remove the brake lever 16 from the hinge pin 6.

Attached to the Windlass drum 7 is a cable Patented Sept. 1, 1914.. i

of the body casting 2 Integrally formed on the under The speed at which the anchor is lowered 18, preferably of wire, to the lower end of said cable and movable into and out of said which is secured the reduced upwardly proeasing. 1ect1ng stem 19 of a heavy weight or an- 6. The combination with a boat, of a supchor 20. When the anchor 20 1S lifted to porting casing secured to said boat, a cran its uppermost position, the stem 19 enters the lower end portion of the body casting 2 and is securely held against swinging movement thereby. In this position of the anchor 20, the same wilLnot strike an ebstruction or engage the ground when the boat is dragged either onto the dock or the shore.

Obviously, the anchor may be let down by lifting the cover 5 a distance sufiicient to carry the retaining dogs 13 out of engagement with the teeth of the ratchet wheels 8.

equipped Windlass drum journaled within said casing and having a ratchet wheel, a cover normally closing sai casing and having a retaining dog cooperating with said ratchet wheel, a cable attached to said windlass, and an anchor attached to the lower end of said cable. 7. The combination with a'boat, of a supporting casing secured to said boat, a crank 7. 5 equipped windlass drum journaled in the upper en'd ,of said casing and having a ratchet wheel and a friction wheel, a cover normally closing the upper end of said casmay be regulated by the brake lever 16. -ing and having a retaining dogcooperating What we claim is': with said ratchet wheel, a brake, device se- 1. The combination with a boat, of an ancured to said casing and cooperating with choring device, comprising an anchor supsa d friction wheel, a cable attached to said port dctachably secured to said boat, an an- Windlass drum, and an anchor attached to chor, and means carried by said support for the lower end of said cable. nroving said anchor to and from operative 8. The combination with a' boat, of a supogitions, porting casing secured to said boat, a crank 2. The combination with a boat, of an an equipped Windlass drum journaled in the upchoring device, comprising an anchor sup-, per end of said casing and having a ratchet port detachably secured to said boat, a crank wheel and a friction wheel, a cover normally 9C equipped drum journaled on said support, ,clos-mg the upper end of said casing and and an anchor connected to and operated by having a retaining dog cooperating wit said crank equipped drum. said ratchet wheel, a brake device secured to 3; The combination with a boat, of a supsaid casing and cooperating with sai icporting casing detachably secured to said tion wheel a cable attached to said wind- 9 boat, a crank equipped Windlass drum jourlass drum, an anchor attached to the lower naled within said casing, a cable attached end of said cable, and a yielding latch for to said Windlass drum and extending downnormally holding said cover in a closed powardthrough said casing, and an anchor sition but permitting said retaining dog to attached to the lower end of said cable and move into and out of engagement with said 1 seats in said casin and open seats,

ratchet wheel.

9. The co bination with a boat, of a.supporting casing detachably secured to said boat, a crank equipped Windlass drum journaled in open seats in the upper end of said casing and having a ratchet wheel and a friction wheel, a cover normally closing said casing an having a retaining dog cooperating with said'ratchet wheel, a brake device eobperating with said friction wheel and arranged to hold said Windlass drum against removal'from said, open seats, a cable atmovable into and out of said casing.

4. The combination with a boat, of a sup porting casing secured tosaid boat, a crank equipped Windlass drum journaled in open having a friction wheel, a brake device cooperating with said friction wheel and arranged to hold said Windlass drum against removal from said a cable attached to saidwindlass drum, and an anchor attached to the lower end of said cable.

5. The combination with a boat, of a supporting casing secured to said boat, a crank equipped Windlass drum journaled in open seats in the upper end of said casing, a pawl and ratchet device for holding said windlass drum in different set adjustments, a friction wheel on said Windlass drum, a brake device cooperating with said friction wheel and arrange to hold said Windlass drum extending and an anchor attached to the lower end of said cable and movable into and out of said casing. I In testimony whereof we afiix our signatures in presence of two witnesses.

, JOHN EDMAN.

against removal from said open seats, a EARL 'EGK. cable attached" to said Windlass drum and W ne extending downward through said casing, EMILY MAY KING,

and an anchor attached to the lower end of HARRY D. KxLeoRE. 

